Sentences with phrase «deep polar ice caps»

Dec 10, 2007 — Scientists from Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory will report this week on vital topics including new evidence of the effects of climate change; technologies to confront it; studies of eastern U.S. earthquake risk; and previously unseen inner workings of the deep polar ice caps.

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If it happened in the last 100,000 years, it might be possible someday to extract traces of its effects from deep within the polar ice caps.

A series of robotic missions, from Viking in the 1970s to the Spirit rover still roaming Mars today, have observed ancient riverbeds and polar ice caps storing enough water to submerge the entire planet in an ocean 40 feet deep.

We land bouncily, overshoot the runway (built, the story goes, by robots from previous unmanned missions), and nearly plummet into a deep rift near the north polar ice cap.

Koonins» editorial comprises compelling reasons to * SUSTAIN * NASA / NOAA / EPA investments in satellite altimetry (rising sea - level and ocean - currents), gravimetry (melting polar ice - caps and ocean - currents), carbon dioxide (residence - times), and ozone studies, and to * EXPAND * NASA / NOAA / EPA participation in aerosol studies and Deep ARGO.

There are zones where new deep water is formed, mostly at the edges of the polar ice caps.

There is substantial uncertainty in the rate of heat transport into the deep ocean, and in the rate of polar ice cap melting.